Before I was praising you for your PnP, but now it looks like you're just trying too hard:icon_neutral:
Have you ever heard of homonyms? They're words with more than one meaning. Kurl gave the meaning of the word he was using and bolded the meaning he was going for.. That doesn't mean that you should go for the one he wasn't. ex: if someone told me the staff are on their lunch break, I'm not going to expect that person to be talking about a walking stick.
And how did you arrive at your conclusion that the person was not talking about a walking stick? Perhaps because of the context in which the word was used, correct?
Now, take the context of this statement:
Here you go, last 48 hours (roughly since last stat post). No big change, eQu plodding through while ~TKE~ continues their non-combat nobling spree.
Couple that with kurlnova's decidedly low opinion of the opponent tribe, as graphically displayed throughout this thread.
Sure doesn't seem to me like he thinks they are having a tough time going through them.
Maybe lazily going through, or going through them lackadaisically would be a better descriptors, since that would imply that it is taking a long time to go through them because they are not putting in much effort instead of putting in a lot of effort while not getting very far, which is what plodding means.
Remember, context and connotation are important to consider. It is how people infer the meaning of the word you are using. If you are using the word wrongly, then you can't blame the people for misinterpreting you, now can you?
But, I digress. This argument is really moot.
I have pointed out that they will never get anywhere against TKE should the current trends continue, and that is fact. Just look at these miserable stats:
Side 1:
Tribes: eQu
Players:
Side 2:
Tribes: ~TKE~
Players:
Timeframe: Last week
Total conquers:
Side 1: 56
Side 2: 153
Difference: 97
Total conquers against opposite side:
Side 1: 17
Side 2: 3
Difference: 14
Points value of total conquers:
Side 1: 386,072
Side 2: 633,771
Difference: 247,699
Points value of total conquers against opposite side:
Side 1: 116,438
Side 2: 13,653
Difference: 102,785
So, yeah, they have 17 conquers to only 3 losses in the head-to-head stats for the last week. However, in that same time period TKE nobled about three times as many villages and gained about twice as many points. So, they may not be focusing hard on them, but TKE definitely isn't losing anything to cause serious concern as a result of eQu's effort.